This is a romp through the history of healthcare, hosted by the inimitable Dr Grimgrave. It includes chapters on ancient medicine - Stone Age trepanning, Chinese medicine, Romans, Greeks: the dodgy diagnostics of the Middle Ages; the bloody operations before anaesthetics and hygiene were implemented; Florence Nightingale's nursing revolution and development of public; health; Life-saving surgery available today, including plastic surgery and transplants; and modern miracles - new drugs and treatment.

 

 

This book is part of a book series called Horrible Science .

There are 144 pages in this book. This book was published in 2006 by Scholastic .

Tony De Saulles is the illustrator of the bestselling multi award-winning HORRIBLE SCIENCE series, which recently won The Blue Peter Prize for Best Book With Facts. Nick Arnold is a British writer of science books for children.